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Discipline (Major): Computing

Award Title: Higher National Certificate (HNC)                   Award Code: G7GL 15

Total number of credits required for the Award: 12 credits

 

1. Core – 6 Credits      

No.

Unit Code

Unit Title

Total teaching hours /sem

Academic Value

Prerequisites

SQA credit Value

SQA credit points

 

1

DH2T 34

 

Computer Architecture 1

 

 

44

 

1

 

8

 

2

D75X 34

Information Technology: Applications Software 1

44

1

8

 

3

DH35 34

Computing: Planning

 

44

1

8

 

4

DH33 34

Computer Operating Systems 1

 

44

1

8

 

5

DH21 34

Working within a Project Team

 

 

44

 

1

 

8

 

 

6

DH36 34

Computing: Graded Unit  1

 

44

1

 

8

DH2T 34

DH35 34

DH33 34

                                                           Table 1

 

2. Optional – 6 Credits

No.

Unit Code

Unit Title

Total teaching hours / sem

Academic Value

Prerequisites

SQA credit Value

SQA credit points

1

DH34 35

Software Development: Event Driven Programming

88

2

16

 

2

DH3C 35

Software Development: Object Oriented Programming

88

2

16

 

3

DH3A 34

Multi User Operating Systems

 

44

1

8

 

4

DH3F 34

Systems Development: Introduction

 

44

 

1

 

8

 

5

DH2R 34

Multimedia: Developing Multimedia Applications

 

88

 

2

 

16

 

6

D76S 35

Software Development: Fourth Generation Environment

 

88

 

2

 

16

 

Table 2

 

 

 

 

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